Poor Buffy. Your life resists all things average.

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Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier  

A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.

Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych


Sophia Brooks - Feb 25, 2003 10:57:24 pm PST #5584 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Nilly of the WX discussion

ita poses a question about general discontent:

[link]

This is followed by 500 addition posts, so if you don't want to read all of them:

1. We discuss the 'Buffists Island mentality and also "what we miss" .

2. Jim makes a point about nostalgia: [link]

3. Nutty talks about holding 2 opinions at once. [link]

4. We all bitch some more and jengod has a proposal: [link]

5. Beverly talks about Marcie: [link]

6. David mentions consensus and banning procedures: [link]

7.ita challenges us to find the real problem: [link]

8. Jengod has more proposals [link] Lower on the page, Suela talks about when she avoid bureacracy and David reiterates his stand on our banning policy.

9. David on Banning againand ita rebuts: [link]

10: hayden puts in his 2 cents: [link]

11. David S. says "We're Buffistas. Let's Be Buffistas" [link]

12: The we talk about archiving:

13: Kat responds to me, responding to her dissatisfaction with the bureacracy thread [link] A fairly long and interesting discussion follows.

14. David responds: [link]

15. David S. takes us back to Bureacracy. [link]

16. Tom Warin chimes in: [link]

17. Beth posts calmly: [link]

18: Jim suggests "whuffie" an d there is a surge of support, which dies by the end of the day: [link]

edit-- more to come


Trudy Booth - Feb 25, 2003 10:57:46 pm PST #5585 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

OMG, Jon, you couldn't be the ANYTHING from hell if you tried all day with a tazer and a Johnny Depp video.


DavidS - Feb 25, 2003 10:59:03 pm PST #5586 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Wow, Sophia, thanks for that summary.

I'll put the APB in Sang Sacre and Movies.


Jon B. - Feb 25, 2003 11:00:39 pm PST #5587 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

There are a bunch of broken links in there, Sophia, but I gots to get to sleep (7:30 am conference call at work tomorrow!!!), so I can't be stompy and fix them myself.

And thanks, Trudy.


DavidS - Feb 25, 2003 11:01:30 pm PST #5588 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Okay, I've posted the APB in Sang Sacre and in Movies.


DavidS - Feb 25, 2003 11:05:05 pm PST #5589 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

When I clicked on the form to vote it said it was sending it to my own email address. Shouldn't it go to jengod for tabulation? Is this a leftover because I was one of the testing people, or was that not changed on the form?


Sophia Brooks - Feb 25, 2003 11:06:42 pm PST #5590 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

19: amych helps us understand the difference between whuffie and Marcie: [link] More explainations follow.

20. We talk about whuffie ad nauseum. And whiffle. And whuffle.

21, beth starts to clarify issues:

[link]

22. We move on to talking about stompies and what they do. How they see themselves, how we see them, how newer community members may see them: [link]

23. I guess I started IT. But Jesse says a similar thing. [link]

And I really think that from there to the end is worth reading, because it starts to be all about the voting.


Elena - Feb 25, 2003 11:07:33 pm PST #5591 of 10001
Thanks for all the fish.

Ahh, do we need to close a tag? Nevermind.


Jon B. - Feb 25, 2003 11:08:05 pm PST #5592 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I lied. I fixed Sophia's post #5582.


Sophia Brooks - Feb 25, 2003 11:08:26 pm PST #5593 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

What did I do-- It looks fine to me (and I am not using any tags.)